Monitor funds allocation in accounting software

Monitoring of fund allocation is never easy, especially when there are multiple funds and projects. A school may receive funding from MOE (Ministry of Education) to upgrade the computer lab, pocket money fund for the children, or allocate a fund internally to maintain the canteen. An easy way of tracking the funding is using the job feature in MoneyWorks, create a job code for each funding and tag it to a ‘client’, the organisation that giving the fund. Assuming you received a few funding from MOE in the year 2018, you may use a job code such as MOE1801, MOE1802, etc. to differentiate it.

Use a Receipt transaction to record the fund received and tag it to the job. The entry debits the bank and credits the income account. Then, use the job code in payment or purchase invoice transaction when there are expenses related to the job. Next, use the Job Allocation report, a new report in MoneyWorks version 8.1.5, to monitor how the fund has used once related entries have recorded.

Unlike external funding, internal funding requires to move the fund out from the bank and receiving back to indicate as a fund ‘received’ for the project. In the payment transaction, issue the fund out from the bank to a Fund Received income account, and then use a negative value on the second detail line to move the money back to the bank and tag it to the job. The payment debits the Fund Received and credits the Bank, and then debits the Bank and credit back to the Fund Received account. The transaction gross is zero as these are memo entries, you will see a deposit and a withdrawal when reconciling the bank which you can knock off without affecting the book. Similar to the external funding, you record the project related expenses via the payment and purchase invoice transaction and tag it to a job; then use the Job Allocation report to monitor the fund.

Job Allocation report helps monitor fund received and expenditures of both related expenses and assets purchased. Do consider upgrading to version 8.1.5 if job tracking is your priority.